Quotes About Fields

It is enough to say that he dwelt in a city of high walls where sterile twilight reigned, that he toiled all day among shadow and turmoil, coming home at evening to a room whose one window opened not to open fields and groves but on to a dim court where other windows stared in dull despair.

It must, I thought as I viewed it, be the outcome of a fire; but why had nothing new ever grown over those five acres of grey desolation that sprawled open to the sky like a great spot eaten by acid in the woods and fields?

He (the immigrant father) would walk by proxy in the Elysian fields of liberal learning.

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.

language, which he had learnt from his mother. The corn-fields and meadows were surrounded by large forests, in the midst

The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization.

Winter giveth the fields, and the trees so old, their beards of icicles and snow.

It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills.

On the holy boughs of the Celestial Tree High up in the heavenly fields, Beyond terrestrial desire My soul-bird a warm nest has built.

Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss.

The air had that pellucid mountain clarity that made shapes sharper and colors truer. The green of the paddy fields wasn't just green, but a lusty green, full of hunger for sunlight and moisture. And the slopes weren't mere hulks of rock, but the ribs of the valley, protecting the delicate strip of fertile soil from the worst of the harsh elements.

It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills.

In the licorice fields at Pontefract My love and I did meet And many a burdened licorice bush Was blooming round our feet; Red hair she had and golden skin, Her sulky lips were shaped for sin, Her sturdy legs were flannel-slack'd The strongest legs in Pontefract.

Alice in Wonderland, Alice down the rabbit hole, Alice out in Cyberspace, flung along the lines of data, flying across fields of light, the night cities that live only behind her eyes.

More and more job fields require some form of higher education, and the pressure is on for schools to adequately prepare our students to compete both nationally and globally and help drive economic growth.

To retain my fascination with chemistry, I have had to change my research fields about every 10 years.

There is some truth to the idea that, in the fields of science, individual contributions of great significance are possible.

Innocence revived is the freshening rain of life on dead and wintered fields.

We came to believe that we could concrete over the fields and design a better life for ourselves, free of nature's wildness and uncertainties. But it's very obvious now that this was the wrong way to go.

The pools had been written onto the fields by the rain. The pools were a magic worked by the rain, just as the tumbling of the black birds against the grey was a spell that the sky was working and the motion of grey-brown grasses was a spell that the wind made. Everything had meaning.

The peasant is the only species of human being who doesn't like the country and never looks at it.

I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.

So much of life's dramas, good and bad, play out against family and so it's really inspiring for any number of stories in all the fields I write in.

Behold, I say unto you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest." -- John 4:35